Hi Yupette,
In the event you missed Dominion Virginia Power's press release VEPCO is ensuring the Ballston-Rosslyn corridor will have an adequate supply of electrical power by constructing a new $87.3 million 3.7 mile underground power line from high voltage towers near Four Mile run to a new substation near N. Courthouse Road and Route 50.
So, the Green questions of the day are: how much solar and other alternative energy (wind turbines) could Virginia Power have installed on-site (building roofs and exteriors) in the R-B corridor for the $87.3 million and how much power would that on-site alternative energy have generated?
Ron
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Well, $1 million per building for 87 buildings.
Ask Jay Fisette's Citizen Energy Task Force.
Supposing Virginia Power's underground cables carry 230,000 volts at 100 amps, that's 23 megawatts.
You could generate 23 megawatts with about 150 acres of solar panels.
If solar panels were placed on the rooftop of the Pentagon (all fie rings) how much electricity would that generate? Just wondering.
Heard about that wonderful oil company, BP? They own a huge solar R & D facility in Frederick, MD (I-70 and 270 intersection). Of course none of the buildings in the I-270 "Technology" corridor have solar panels. And BP recently outsourced the solar panel manufacturing plant that used to manufacture the panels next door to the R & D facility...to India. What a wonderful company. Deserves to be represented on Fisette's energy task farce.
Yupette, the DOD removed the solar array that used to be on the shoulder of I-395 on the grounds of the Pentagon's power plant.
The energy task force's GHG specialist is former Enron energy trader John Palmisano. I hear that he'll be happy to consult with colleagues Fastow and Skilling (errr, I mean visit) to help out on financial matters.
Fisette was shocked...shocked when a civic activist told him what a charade the task force is and what a joke "Gourmet Jay" has been on the CB.
No brainer...if $87.3 million of solar were installed in the R-B Corridor the R-B corridor wouldn't need a new 230,000 volt line to provide excess capacity.
At least 80% of Virginia Power's electricity comes from coal and nuclear.
Do you want to know who's worse than VEPCO? The National Rural Electrification Association, which refuses to acknowledge that wind and solar would be a huge benefit to rural America.
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology is awesome. Where are the solar panels on the roof of the school?
Buffy, the new dorms on your alma mater, Marymount University, are also awesome. They consume a lot of hot water. Where are the solar panels?
Well, what do expect when the County is controlled by bi-partisan Reagan Yuptards?
1 acre is 43560 square feet or 208 x 208 feet.
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